Lens Metals & Mining Assets Discovery
Wood Mackenzie Lens, our powerful data analytics platform, brings you a holistic view of risk and return from raw materials to market. Layers of insight to attract and allocate capital.
Lens Metals & Mining Assets Discovery
Wood Mackenzie Lens, our powerful data analytics platform, brings you a holistic view of risk and return from raw materials to market. Layers of insight to attract and allocate capital.
Propel opportunities forward with precision
Eliminate uncertainty in portfolio management decisions. With Lens Metals & Mining Assets Discovery, you can evaluate the viability of a mining opportunity and assess its potential for maximised investment returns.
Features and workflows
Trusted data to provide you with insights you need to accelerate business growth, validate strategic decisions and gain a complete understanding of your risks and opportunities.
Key features of Wood Mackenzie's Lens Metals & Mining Assets Discovery:
- Intuitive map interface to support asset screening – view assets at their location, integrating geospatial data on infrastructure, leases, geology, and other contextual factors
- Weekly updates on costs, production, reserves, resources, and financial metrics for modelled assets
- Search, screen and filter based on your screening criteria
- Extract charts, graphs and data within seconds
- Collaborate and share your views with your colleagues
Wood Mackenzie’s Lens Metals & Mining Assets Discovery provides data on:
Asset-level data on key mined commodities for your asset screening and analysis in a single platform:
- Copper: 480+ copper mines modelled and 600+ projects
- Gold: 600+ gold mines modelled and 300+ projects
- Lithium: 200+ lithium mines modelled
- Zinc & Lead: 370+ zinc and lead mines modelled and 400+ projects
Quick refresh of charts & analysis via API
- Extend your Lens access by seamlessly integrating Wood Mackenzie data into your workflow with Lens Direct, our powerful API service.
Wood Mackenzie's Lens Metals & Mining Assets Discovery enables a number of key workflows including:
- Asset screening and analysis: Screen market opportunities and assess mining assets' performance and potential, nearby infrastructure, and financial viability.
- Merger & Acquisitions: Evaluate potential targets, company profiles, and portfolio diversification opportunities.
- Competitive Intelligence: Benchmark against industry peers to improve competitive positioning.
Why choose WoodMac's Lens Metals & Mining Assets Discovery?
Specifically designed for your workflows: A data analytics platform made for all enterprise users to get immediate insights and foster collaboration.
Global data coverage: Meticulously built bottom-up, asset-by-asset and integrated with multi-sector market analysis for a consistent, precise view across mined commodities for robust capital investment decisions.
Integrated: An interconnected global view incorporating assets and market analysis that empower decisions.
Cross-commodity solution: An integrated cross-commodity view of how markets and assets develop across the value chain as per Wood Mackenzie’s energy transition scenarios.
Market expertise: Gain invaluable insights from a global team of industry experts with in-depth knowledge across an increasingly connected energy, chemicals, metals and mining value chain.
Seamless access to data: API service to seamlessly ingest and integrate Wood Mackenzie’s data into your proprietary systems and BI tools.
Opportunity screening made easy
- Conduct asset screening with an intuitive mapping interface to search, filter, and map assets such as mines, smelters, and refineries in seconds.
- View the connection of each asset to critical infrastructures like power plants, railways, and ports using Lens interactive map.
- Gain access to granular data encompassing the financial and economic health of each asset.
Build effective resourcing strategies. All in one view.
- Compare grades and remaining metals at asset, country, and company levels.
- Examine mine production profiles, including grades, recoveries, and by-products.
- Pinpoint assets with the most efficient production by analysing reserves by production method.
Maintain a competitive position
- Transform your market assessment with new benchmark capabilities covering labour, productivity, mine and global average cost.
- Benchmark against industry peers and develop strategies to improve competitive positioning.
- Access global cost models of a single or group of mines, smelters and refineries covered by Wood Mackenzie.
Frequently asked questions
Here you’ll find answers to the most common questions you may have on Wood Mackenzie's Lens Metals & Mining Assets Discovery. If you have any other questions, get in touch.
Lens Metals & Mining covers key mined commodities like Copper, Nickel, Zinc and Lead. With 3,330 assets encompassing mines, smelters, refineries and new projects, Lens Metals & Mining Assets Discovery allows you to identify, evaluate and screen for growth opportunities.
Our metals and mining analysts connect data across the mining value chain, highlighting the energy decarbonisation market trends to ensure the insights Lens brings you are holistic. Our data is meticulously built bottom-up, asset-by-asset and integrated with multi-sector market analysis for a consistent, precise view across mined commodities for robust capital investment decisions.
Lens Metals & Mining Assets Discovery offers unparalleled depth and accuracy in asset screening, setting a new industry standard. What truly sets us apart is our exceptional detail on mines, historical CapEx, mine profiles, costs, grades and more.
Wood Mackenzie's industry experts regularly visit production facilities, allowing us to ensure data quality and gain deeper insights into market trends through our comprehensive bottom-up, asset-by-asset analysis. We complement this approach with a top-down perspective, considering corporate viewpoints to verify that our asset-level modelling aligns with broader industry patterns. This dual approach enables us to provide the most accurate and detailed market intelligence available.
Lens Direct is Wood Mackenzie’s data delivery service that provides a feed connecting users to our extensive datasets, using an API. Here, you can download Wood Mackenzie’s data into your own proprietary systems and BI tools, including Excel, Power BI, Spotfire and Tableau.
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Whether you are gathering market intelligence, benchmarking against peers, or screening for bankable mining opportunities, we've got you covered. Let us show you how.
